John Taylor and Ann Norman have submitted the following:
Thomas C. Thompson was born in about 1890, one of six children of William and Elizabeth Thompson of 18 Boundary House, Wrekenton. In 1911 he was employed as a coal hewer along with his father and older brother.
He is recorded on the memorial as serving with the Northumberland Fusiliers. However the most probable military records refer to a man who was born and lived in Wrekenton and served as a Private with 1st/9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, regimental number 18210. It is possible that he transferred regiments at some point although we have not found a record of this so far. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 28th March 1918. He is remembered with a photograph in the Gateshead War Honours Scrapbook.
